Without Lenin, the White Russians would have won the struggle for control of Russia, and a non-communist, possibly even democratic government would have eventually emerged. So Joseph Stalin wouldn’t have been around to kill tens of millions of Russian people, which would have been super

Sounds like the noble thing to do, right? I mean, you’d be world-famous. Your name would reverberate around history, single-handedly putting an end to one of the more brutal dictatorships the world has known. The person who tried to assassinate him, well, she and thousands of others were killed the next day in retribution for the attack.

But.

there also would have been no “Uncle Joe” to drag Russia kicking and screaming into modernity so that they could have the military badassery to kill eight out of every 10 Germans that died in WWII.

You heard what I’m saying, sun? America got the layup in Europe on dub-dub-deuce from the brutal, totalitarian Ruskies. If Russia had disintegrated into warring tribal areas, Germany would have Stalinized them, post-invasion.

So, is your answer still yes?